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Who Stole YOUR Post?

This is way off topic for an edblog, but I just followed a visitor link back to it’s source, and surprise (!), I found myself reading one of Frumteacher’s recent posts on some kind of blog that either mirrors posts from other blogs, or captures them at random and puts them up. There were posts from other blogs as well.

In the past, I’ve found some of my own posts pasted in strange blog sites and I have no idea if these are some kind of blog-bots or what. The one that mirrored FT’s post was from boredblogs.com, and the one that mirrored (stole) one of mine was a site that advertised all kinds of prescription drugs. (Yeah, I know, the product could have been worse.)

Does anyone know what’s up with all that white blog-noise out there?

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It’s easy. Got a consistent blog? Then you’re someone who these blog stealers want to steal content from. And if they have your content, then they hope people will come to their blog for your content, and then automatic advertisers, like the ones who make all the pop-up ads, and even companies like Google Ad-Sense, will pay the blog stealers off because they’re getting hits off your content. I think that’s the way it goes, because my blog has been stolen plenty of times. Not it’s full content (from what I know), but definitely excerpts.

The same has happened to me and to others who I know that blog. It’s very strange.

I wonder if there is anything we can do.

There’s a retired FBI guy here in town who now works as a computer crime specialist for the local PD. I’m gonna check with him. Even if it’s not a crime, he might have some good suggestions for follow-up. — Hugh

Jose’s explanation sounds logical, and if he’s right I guess we should take the whole mirror thing as a compliment. Although it gives me shivers to see my own words on someone else’s blog (even translated into German, once).

If Jose’s description of this nefarious activity is accurate (and I have no reason to believe that it’s not), then we’re ALL in trouble! Knowing that others could rip off my content (maybe already have) almost makes me want to quit blogging!

It’s not that they want to profit from our content per se, but they want a body of words that make sense to whatever algorithms Google has working to prevent scammers from fooling the web-crawling bots. Therefore the text pirates cruise the net (automatically?) scooping up our words so that their business sites get higher search rankings because of continuously renewed content.

The same has happened to me on a few occasions. I use to try to do something about it and they removed one or two. Now I don’t bother. It’s irritating, but I don’t think anything can really be done about it.
I’ve got a feeling you’re correct on this, Eric. Oh well… — Hugh

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